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A cheerleading coach has been accused of having a five-year affair with her daughter's ex-boyfriend.
Jennifer Hawkins, 45, was a teacher at West Moore High School and Brink Junior High in Oklahoma, US, when the relationship began.
Police told reporters that they had sex around 300 times with the teacher often taking the boy out of school during the day.
The relationship began when the boy was dating Hawkins' daughter.
According to the prosecutor, she would control who and where the boy could meet friends.
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Local news channel KOKH reports she has now been arrested after allegedly having a sexual relationship with the student and wrecking his time at high school.
The channel says according to court documents, Hawkins was a cheer coach at West Moore High School and Brink Junior High.
Southmore High School where the boy studiedThe alleged victim is a former Southmoore High School student.
Cleveland County First Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Austin told them: “I see things that are shocking.”
Ms. Austin says she’s been prosecuting sex crimes for over 20 years and confirmed state law prohibits students and district employees from having sexual relationships, including when the student reaches the age of consent.
Cleveland County First Assistant District Attorney Jennifer AustinShe claimed that in this case “a lot of the sexual acts that took place, she would have him come home for school from school at lunch to her home and have the sex relationship at home while her, her daughter and her, her family were at work or at school”.
The student claimed to investigators that Hawkins was “manipulative and controlling” and alleges the two had sex over 300 times.
“There’s been a lot of impact on this victim in particular because of the nature of this relationship, because it was so controlling,” Austin claims.
Hawkins would allegedly drive the boy back to her home during the school dayShe told the channel: “And his high school, his entire high school time frame where he should have been a student and should have been enjoying being a student, was in a relationship with her where she limited his friends and his interactions with others.”
They said according to court documents, Hawkins told police that the victim had also been living with her family when the relationship began.
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Hawkins was arrested and booked into the Cleveland County Detention Center and is now facing charges of second-degree rape and sexual battery.